I loved the FXG format, I do all my vector drawing in Flash and FXG was a breath of fresh air to me because it exported everything perfectly. Including, finally, after many years, the gradients. Now I find it is gone, I am heatbroken :-)

Thank you for your response. Unfortunately I do not know programing so am unable to do anything with the code in the link provided. This process has caused quite allot of stress as I was able to make something work with one of my clients Flash files into Illustrator but not the other. I have CC and previous versions of Flash but none of them work for what I need. Even when I am able to get an FXG file saved it will not open in Illustrator and I keep getting the same message that the "file needs to be validated". I have no clue what that means or how to validate it. There is nothing online to help.

Is this a problem that Adobe has recognized and that is why it has been removed… for a rebuild? If so, I certainly hope they come up with a better solution than previous solutions. I am surprised there are no posts about this online as I would think it is a headache for others as well.

I am sorry for all of my frustrations and I am certainly not trying to take them out on you. I am just trying to remove vector art from Flash to work with in Illustrator. Easy enough from Illustrator to Flash.

Please let me know of any other solutions you might have and thank you again for your response.

I started drawing in Illustrator with version 1 in 1987, but when I learned the Flash way of doing it I found I preferred Flash for many types of illustrations. With FXG I'd export vectors from Flash and import them into Illustrator for tweaking. It was shocking when I opened Flash CC and didn't see the export or the import for Illustrator CC. I had to go back to working in CS6 like many others. Very disappointing Adobe.

This is ABSOLUTELY maddening. Are you kidding me? MANY MANY MANY people use flash for illustration. There is no literally no way to export a file as a usable vector file. I have a project due for a client tomorrown and now I have no way to deliver it to them, which is also a result of Adobe disabling my ability to even save the file as a CS5 format.

Please stop removing features from your software at random without even knowing what your users are using. This is absolutely unacceptable and ridiculous.

@gataviano - Not only was the response in July, but it said "we are looking into Flash-Illustrator workflows for the next update and we will have a vector export from Flash which could be imported into Adobe Illustrator." We've had an update since that post and it did not include any such functionality.

you can export Flash artwork out as a PDF and import into Illustrator. Look up printing from flash specfically Joshua Davis as he creates complex illustrations from Flash and exports them into Illustrator by way of print to postscipt.

To give a good example, imagine a small studio is making animated series in flash, and then it needs to print out dvd's covers, posters and a lot of merchandise with the characters of the show. And that is vital for the studio to make it on the market, to be able to deliver the product to the client and so on. Thanks to Adobe here it turns out it's completely impossible. The only solution is to trace everything manually dot by dot in Illustrator, which consumes an inmense amount of time and effort.

So you would have to loose money, time, people's resources because of that.

This is an act of an awful disrespect for the clients who pay a considerable amount of money for the product. Moreover, not doing anything for over six month after the issue's been reported, how can it even be serious?

you can save flash files out as .fxg format and import them into illustrator. another alternative although I admit doesnt utilise CC is to open up an older version of Flash CS4-ish and export out to pdf and then again import thru illustrator. I have used both methods and have no issues to report.

there have been a long line of questions on how to do this flash to illustrator art questions and has been covered numerous times throughout the forums. If nothing else please look up Joshua Davis, Brendan Dawes and the ground breaking work they contributed to the Flash community on how to do just this type of thing.

I'm sorry you were not satisfied with a proper walk through hand held answer.